Air Forces Central announced March 15 that an airman working with a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was killed that day by an improvised explosive device. The name of the airman is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release by Department of Defense officials.
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.